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Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow

From
Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date
Dec 14, 2006, 22:12 UTC
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<200612142212.kBEMCVeu032626@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
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<spearce@spearce.org>
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
[...]
> And yet I get good delta compression on a number of ZIP formatted
> files which don't get good additional zlib compression (<3%).

.zip is something like a tar of the compressed files, if the files inside the archive don't change, the deltas will be small.

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  1. Shawn PearceDec 14, 2006
  2. Geert BoschDec 14, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinDec 14, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceDec 14, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 15, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceDec 15, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreDec 15, 2006
  8. Horst H. von BrandDec 14, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceDec 14, 2006
  10. PazuDec 15, 2006
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